How to benchmark your retro gaming PC. I ran my SLI Voodoo 2 cards through 3DMark 99 MAX and Wizmark on Windows 98SE. I also tested out Quake 2's 3DFX OpenGL support and ran the classic Quake 2 timedemo benchmark.
Welcome to this updated guide to benchmarking on old gaming PC! The 1080p video is slightly blown up from the 1024x768 max res. of the Voodoo 2, but I hope you enjoy that all the same.
In this retro PC benchmark video, we’re going to be benchmarking 12mb Voodoo 2s in SLI under Windows 98SE. FutureMark’s 3DMark99 MAX is first, and I show you how to unlock the full version of 3DMark 99 MAX. 3DFX’s own benchmark, WizMark will test the Voodoo architecture nicely and to finish off I'm running a FPS benchmark in Quake 2.
Make sure that 3DMark99 MAX selects the Voodoo 3D Accelerator cards. The benchmark then runs different stress tests for textures, geometry and other number-crunching calculations. What's most fascinating is that for the bump-mapping (which the Voodoo doesn't support), I think the benchmark uses the CPU.
When it comes to benchmarking Windows 98 retro gaming PCs like this, it can be hard to find the right software. I’ve included the complete lists of retro benchmarking programs below.
Currently, Stoked has 3,006 views for Quake II across 1 video. His channel published less than an hour of Quake II content, roughly 1.16% of the content that Stoked has uploaded to YouTube.
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